Banqin added charcoal to the brazier, and the room felt warm.
"I called it wrong."
Prince Jin'an stood on the porch outside the door and said with a smile.
"My name is Cheng Fang."
Cheng Jiaoniang nodded and said nothing.
"I happened to be passing by and came to say hello. It's okay." Prince Jin'an said with a smile, "I'm leaving now."
Cheng Jiaoniang responded and stepped out.
"Are you okay?" Prince Jin'an looked at her hesitantly and asked.
"Something happened, but it's okay." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
Prince Jin'an nodded.
"Oh, by the way." Cheng Jiaoniang said again, "You said I made the snacks that day?"
Is it because of this?
Prince Jin'an relaxed a little, it would be good if he knew why something happened.
"No, no, you ate it that day and said it was too sweet, so I asked the cook to change it again, so what I told Your Majesty was what you pointed out," he said.
Cheng Jiaoniang nodded.
"Are you angry because of this?" Prince Jin'an asked hesitantly.
"Of course not." Cheng Jiaoniang shook her head and said.
Prince Jin'an looked at her.
"Cheng Fang." He said, reaching out and patting her arm, and then quickly retracted his hand.
Cheng Jiaoniang looked at him.
"Don't be sad," he said.
"I'm fine." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
I didn’t say I wasn’t sad, but I said I was okay, which meant that I would be sad, but I could survive it.
Looking at the woman greeting her in front of the door, Prince Jin'an lowered the curtain of his car.
The carriage swayed.
His fortune was unfortunate. He finally became sworn brother and died in battle. He finally regained the glory for his brother, but Feng Lin was madly guilty of it.
Although in the end, the danger was saved and the wish was achieved, but if possible, who would be willing to always grit their teeth and use strength to overcome obstacles like this.
Although it was a cloudy day, there were still many people on the street. The attendants led the way. Although the people on the street were much quieter, there was still chatter and laughter.
Prince Jin'an turned his head and slightly lifted the curtain of the carriage.
In the twelfth lunar month, the capital becomes even more lively, with colorful lanterns hung on the street shops, which look like iridescence at night and also look eye-catching during the day.
Several young ladies in red and green were chatting and laughing around a shop, with bright smiles under their hoods.
She never even smiled.
One thing after another, she was never happy.
Prince Jin'an lowered his head, what should he do?
The prince of Jin'an County coughed lightly, and the chamberlain sitting in front of the car hurriedly looked over.
"Come here." Prince Jin'an beckoned and said.
The waiter hurriedly climbed in.
"A friend of yours is in a bad mood, how can you make her a little happier?" Prince Jin'an asked.
The waiter was startled when asked.
"Losing money to him on purpose." He replied in a daze.
The prince of Jin'an County sighed.
She cares about money! Besides, how to gamble?
It’s crazy to ask these chambermaids who only have chamberlain friends! The fun of these people is not money!
"Go away." He waved his hands and said angrily.
Prince Jin'an's car drove through the street.
On the rooftop of the Taishi Bureau, there is a brazier burning indoors in winter, and several officials are sitting in it, with an astrolabe in front of them, drinking and laughing.
At this moment, the door was pushed open, and the cold wind made the people in the room alert. They quickly put down the wine bowls in their hands and looked at the astrolabe seriously.
"grown ups."
A voice said with a bit of timidity.
Only then did a few people see that a student was walking in. They immediately sat down casually and picked up their wine bowls.
"What's the matter? Didn't you say you are not allowed to disturb us during the deduction?" one of them raised his eyebrows.
Si Tiantai students hurriedly bowed and saluted.
"Sir, the student just seemed to see it." He hesitated and stammered.
"What did you see?" an official asked angrily, "Just record it."
"The student saw Taibai..." the student said.
As soon as he said this, an official who was drinking spat it out.
Too white!
There was a rapid sound of footsteps, and four or five officials rushed from the hall to the observatory, squinting in the cold wind of winter afternoon.
It's cloudy today and the sun is dusk.
Several adults looked at it carefully for a long time, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
"What are you talking about?" they turned around and shouted in relief.
The students at Si Tiantai looked uneasy.
"The students really saw it, just now, maybe they passed by..." He said, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by several officials.
"Still passing by!" A man raised his eyebrows and shouted through gritted teeth, "Do you know what you are talking about?"
"Taibai Jing, you dare to say whatever you want." Another person also shouted in a low voice.
The person next to him immediately patted him.
"You still said that!" he said with a look of horror in his eyes.
The man stopped talking immediately and raised his head.
"Let's take a closer look. If there is something, there is something, and if there is nothing, there is nothing. Seeing is believing, and hearing is false." He said, while looking at the student.
The students lowered their heads.
Several people looked at it carefully again, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
"You're showing off after only a few days of study!" Several people glared and scolded, "The affairs of the Prime Minister must be serious and rigorous, not trivial. You must know that one word can make a country prosperous, and one word can bring chaos to a country."
The students hurriedly bowed their heads and answered yes.
"Let's go, let's go, it's really cold this year."
"Who deserves the star tonight?"
"Everyone's star value is the same. It's cloudy today, so there's nothing to see."
Several officials said this, bundled up in their robes and went down in the cold wind.
The student stood on the observatory and looked up at the sky again.
It was sinking to the west and was completely obscured by clouds.
"Did you really see it wrong?" He couldn't help but mutter to himself.
But……..
"Restore it."
Someone shouted loudly.
The student looked around and saw a young man waving to him under the observatory.
"Let's go," the young man said, making a drinking gesture, "Let's warm ourselves up."
The student hesitated and shook his head.
"I'm on duty today, so I won't leave." He said, pointing to the sky.
The young man looked surprised and looked up at the sky.
"It's cloudy today, what's there to see?" he asked in confusion.
The students bowed their hands to him, and the young man could only shake his head and walk away.
"The sky is actually very beautiful." The student said to himself and looked up at the sky again.
The night sky was cloudy and dim, and the stars were almost invisible.
At this time, the lights in the courtyard of the Cheng family in Yudaiqiao had been extinguished, and most people had entered dreamland.
There was a felt mat laid out in the backyard, and a woman was reclining and looking up at the night sky.
Banqin stood aside, hesitated and brought over a large thick felt cushion.
"Madam, please add one more piece." She whispered.
"No need." Cheng Jiaoniang said, stretched out the wine bowl in her hand, "Pour some wine."
Banqin responded, put down the felt mat, poured the wine, and watched Cheng Jiaoniang drink slowly while looking at the night sky.
What can you see in the night sky?
She also looked up.
"Father, what do you see?"
In the dark night, the man on the rooftop looked back. There was no light on the high rooftop, only the stars in the sky.
"I saw destiny." The man said with a slight smile.
She raised her head, and under the starlight the girl seemed to have a puzzled look on her face.
"Can fate be seen?" she asked.
The man reached out and stroked the girl's temples, raised his head and looked around. From the observation deck, he could see the surrounding stacks of houses, looming in the night.
"Ah Fang," he said, "Of course, don't forget what our Cheng family does."
"Those who make food, those who play, those who study, those who record history, those who lead soldiers..." the girl said, twirling her fingers seriously, "and Brother Dongshan's father is a doctor..."
The man laughed.
"Those are just small paths." He said, pointing to the sky, "Ah Fang, you have to know that the main road of our Cheng family is the way of observing the sky."
Observe the way of heaven.
The cold wind became more and more fierce, blowing the scattered hair. Cheng Jiaoniang stretched out her hand to hold it and looked up at the sky. The dark night sky seemed to be gradually torn open by the strong wind, and there were faint stars twinkling.
Heaven, why is there chaos?
According to the records of Taibai Jingtian of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were only eighteen times, seventeen times had happened before, and the eighteenth time, which was the last time of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was when the great ancestor of the Daqing Dynasty destroyed the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Happened the year before.
It was precisely because of this Taibai Jingtian that Daqing Emperor Gaozu obeyed the will of heaven and took over the world on behalf of Dazhou.
It’s been decades since this became fashionable, so why is it happening now?
Could it be that I didn't notice it at this time and missed it in the book?
"Madam, wine." Banqin said, pouring wine again.
Cheng Jiaoniang stretched out her hand to take it and drank it down in one gulp. She looked at the sky again, the stars were faintly visible.
"Father, what do you see in the way of heaven?"
The man lowered his head and smiled slightly when he heard this.
"The way of heaven," he said, "is the destiny."
"Father, what is the purpose of looking at destiny?"
"In order to obey the destiny, but also to go against the destiny."
Follow destiny! Go against destiny!
Cheng Jiaoniang sat up.
So, did what the Cheng family did follow fate or go against it?
What's going forward? What's going against it?
I didn’t know who I was before and never thought about the past. Now I know who I am and I never thought about the past because I couldn’t bear to look directly at it. Now it seems that I still have to think about the past.
"Father, why do I need to learn so many Taoisms?"
"Because Ah Fang will be very important and very different in the future."
It is very important and different, is it because I want to be a queen? At that time, everyone said so.
No, not everyone, my father never said that, he just smiled.
Don't lie.
If this is the case, my father will speak up and respond. If he doesn't speak up, then...
Cheng Jiaoniang stretched out her hand to hold her heart.
Perhaps the reason why she is important and why she has to learn so much is not because she wants to be the queen.
What's that for? What's that for?
For...this moment?
What is it for at this moment?
Cheng Jiaoniang raised her head to look at the sky. Is it too white to be in the sky?
What does Taibai Jingtian portend? The world is in chaos? Why is the world in chaos at this time?
At the same time, in a secret room in Sitiantai, there were piles of messy books next to the desks, and several volumes with astronomical records scattered on the floor. The student stood in front of the desks and looked at them in surprise.
Looking at the papers scattered in front of him, there were dense writings and dotted drawings on them.
"Oh my God, what have I figured out?" he cried.
The sound alarmed the clerk who was sitting and taking a nap in front of the brazier.
"Be careful. Don't mess up the things here. If they are damaged, you will lose your head." He said immediately, looking up at the student and seeing him standing still in shock, "What's wrong?"
"What did I calculate?" the student asked again, looking at him with an expression not of shock, but of surprise.
"What?" the clerk asked in confusion.
"Lunar eclipse," the student said, pointing to the sky, "lunar eclipse!"
Lunar eclipse?
A lunar eclipse is a bad omen. Starting from the top, it means that the king has lost his way, starting from the side, it means that the minister has lost his order, and starting from the bottom, it means that the general has lost his law.
As a junior official in Si Tiantai, he also had some understanding of astronomy, calendar, and astrology. He quickly murmured a sentence.
But soon he sneered again.
"Is there anything strange? Didn't you also calculate the solar eclipse last time?" he said.
What's the result? It's not wrong again.
"Okay, okay, you are doing this and that every day and every month. In the end, you even calculated the calendar wrong. Let's go." The clerk waved his hand impatiently and said, "It's almost dawn. Come out quickly. Here
The astronomical calendar predicts latitude and celestial phenomena from the heavens, but not everyone can see them. Let’s go quickly before dawn.”
The students had no choice but to pack up their things and leave.
The east is bright, but it is not yet bright. There is a twilight between heaven and earth, and the cold wind is biting. The student wraps up his robe tightly, puts away the paper in his arms, and looks up at the sky again.
Is it true that I saw it wrong first and then calculated it wrong now?
It was daybreak, and in Prince Qing's Mansion, Prince Jin'an was lazily leaning on the table, looking at Prince Qing who was sitting on the ground having fun by himself.
"Brother Six, tell me, is she really angry with me?" He exhaled and asked again.
Naturally, Prince Qing would not answer him.
"I don't think she is." Prince Jin'an said.
Even though he said this, he still couldn't help but sigh and throw the ball thrown by King Qing again and again.
"Your Highness."
A servant walked in quickly.
"Someone in Sitiantai saw Taibai Jingtian."
Taibai Jingtian?
Reading is not just about classics and history, but also about astronomy and geography.
Every scholar knows what Taibai Jingtian means.
Prince Jin'an sat up in surprise.
"Now?" he asked.
"No." The chamberlain hurriedly shook his head, "Yesterday, only one person saw it, and he was just a student, so it was rejected."
Prince Jin'an frowned slightly.
Taibai Jingtian…..
Taibai…Jingtian….
"That's right! Is that so?" Prince Jin'an patted his knees and said.
That's right? Is that so again?
So is it true or not?
The waiter was stunned when he heard this.
"That's right, it's Taibai Jingtian." Prince Jin'an nodded and said.
The waiter was stunned when he heard this.
"Your Highness, have you seen it too?" he couldn't help but ask.
Yes, I saw it, Prince Jin'an nodded.
At that time, I was standing in front of Cheng Jiao's mother's house and saw the woman looking up at the sky, her expression different from before.
If she can predict solar eclipses, then Taibai Jingtian must also recognize them.
Then, she is not unhappy because of him!
Not because of him!
"Your Highness." The chamberlain asked uneasily, and when he looked up, he saw the smiling face of Prince Jin'an.
Laughing? How can you laugh at this time!
The waiter immediately shivered.
"Your Highness." He shouted hurriedly.
The prince of Jin'an County also came to his senses.
"Your Highness, if it is really Taibai Jingtian." The chamberlain said in a low voice and with emphasis, "It is Taibai Jingtian!"
This is a bad omen in the sky, the country is in unrest, and the emperor is in danger. How can we laugh?
Prince Jin'an wanted to hide his smile, but he couldn't hide it.
It's not because of herself that she's unhappy.
No.
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PS: Four thousand words, one update today
This is excessive and sets up the background and reasons for the upcoming plot, etc. It may be boring. You can save the article and I will call everyone when the drama begins. (To be continued)
